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			<h1>Daddy Gummy Bear&apos;s office</h1>
			<p>Day 00806: Sunday, 2017 May 21</p>
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	<h2>General news</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve decided to start a small experiment today.
		I won&apos;t say much now, as if it doesn&apos;t pan out, I don&apos;t want to link to my bogus information source.
		If it goes well though, I&apos;ll give them a shout out and briefly tell you what I&apos;ve been doing.
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		Daddy Gummy Bear told us all they&apos;d be in their office, then headed into the walk-in refrigerator and closed the door.
		They do the most random and funny things sometimes.
		We started referring to that as Daddy Gummy Bear&apos;s office for the rest of the day, and when someone got too hot, someone else recommended they pay a visit to Daddy Gummy Bear&apos;s office.
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		The store alarm started acting up today.
		It kept going off and we had to call the head manager in.
		I was mostly out of the loop, but it sounded like the problem was that something was wrong with the alarm&apos;s battery.
		It was corroded?
		It was dead?
		Something like that.
		In any case, it needed to be replaced.
		Still, it was odd it even had a battery.
		It should be hooked up to the main power supply.
		I think the head manager thinks it <strong>*is*</strong> hooked up to the main power supply as well, they they couldn&apos;t get the alarm to shut off by messing with the breakers, which suggests otherwise.
		However ...
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		A few years ago, we had an electrical fire.
		The cord of one of the lobby soda coolers spontaneously caught fire.
		We tried to stop the fire by shutting off all the breakers, but the fire wouldn&apos;t die.
		What if the fire had progressed to the point it could sustain itself without the electricity by the time it was noticed?
		Unlikely.
		With all the circuit breakers shut off, some of the building lights were still on.
		What this tells us is that the building is improperly wired, and not all the electricity can be shut off from the breaker box.
		(It&apos;s possible some of our electricity flows through our neighbour&apos;s breaker box and vice versa.
		We&apos;re in a duplex building.)
		The alarm may very well be connected to the building&apos;s power supply without a way for us to shut it off.
		It&apos;s worth noting too that my employer can&apos;t do anything about the bad wiring.
		It&apos;s not their building, they just rent it from someone else.
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		Tomorrow, it&apos;s vital I both go over the name change procedure again and get at least one document notarised before work.
		Failure to do the former could result in my not properly preparing for the next day.
		For example, I might need a second document notarised and not know until it&apos;s too late.
		The later will prevent my hearing from going favourably.
		Without the notarised document, the judge won&apos;t consider my name change and I&apos;ll need to set a new hearing date.
		As the date must be posted for fourteen days before the hearing and the judge won&apos;t schedule a hearing less than fifteen days away, it&apos;ll set me back by at least fifteen days.
		I might have to repay the filing fees too, I&apos;m not sure.
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		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
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	<h2>Mental health watch</h2>
	<p>
		For the past couple months or so, my libido&apos;s been up.
		Way up.
		It&apos;s been really strange, seeing as I&apos;m asexual, and therefor want nothing to do with sex.
		It hasn&apos;t been necessarily problematic though, so it didn&apos;t warrant mention.
		However, over the past couple days, I&apos;ve now been having sexual thoughts about random people; some I know, some I don&apos;t.
		Why!?
		I hate this.
		Thankfully, there hasn&apos;t been any desire attached to these thoughts, and as long as it remains that way, there continues to not be a problem.
		The sexual thoughts themselves aren&apos;t disturbing for me, only the thought that I might be transforming into a sexual.
		That I might be a &quot;late bloomer&quot;.
		I don&apos;t want to &quot;bloom&quot; at all!
		People change, and that&apos;s fine.
		But my asexuality is such a core part of my being that if I develop a sexuality, what I become won&apos;t be me.
		To be honest, it scares me.
		Furthermore, I have to think about my future.
		What do I do if I end up wanting a partner and wanting to breed?
		Not just have sex, but actually create offspring?
		The world is overpopulated already.
		I can&apos;t in good consciousness add to the problem by making more of us.
		What if I find love though?
		Assuming love&apos;s even a good thing, what if I lose my love because I refuse to make babies with them?
		Of course, that won&apos;t even be a problem if I end up with a same-sex partner.
		My brain hasn&apos;t been discriminating between sexes as far as who it makes me think about sexually.
		Still, I hope this is as far as this progresses, but I fear it might not be.
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	<h2>University life</h2>
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		The <span title="Greek and Roman Civilization">HIST 1421</span> reading assignment this week is unclear. I think it&apos;s as follows:
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			<a href="https://the-romans.co.uk/domestic_architecture.htm">The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm&apos;s &apos;The Romans&apos;: 6.4 Domestic architecture</a>
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		<li>
			<a href="https://the-romans.co.uk/gems.htm">The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm&apos;s &apos;The Romans&apos;: 6.3 Gem engraving</a>
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		<li>
			<a href="https://the-romans.co.uk/painting.htm">The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm&apos;s &apos;The Romans&apos;: 6.2 Painting &amp; Mosaic</a>
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		<li>
			<a href="https://the-romans.co.uk/public_architecture.htm">The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm&apos;s &apos;The Romans&apos;: 6.5 Architecture of public buildings</a>
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		<li>
			<a href="https://the-romans.co.uk/sculpture.htm">The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm&apos;s &apos;The Romans&apos;: 6.1 Art and Architecture - Sculpture</a>
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		I wrote up my main discussion post for the week:
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			In the beginning, houses within the cities were just one-room buildings.
			The room of the building was called an atrium.
			Instead of their roofs sloping outward, as is the case on modern buildings, the roof sloped inward.
			In the centre, a hole allowed water to drain from the roof into a basin, called the impluvium.
			The Romans used this as a way of collecting drinking water.
			Later on, houses became more complex, and rooms could be added within the atrium.
			Though most houses were one-story, two story houses did exist.
			In smaller towns especially, the bottom floor might be a shop, while the top floor acted as a dwelling space.
			When this was the case, the dwelling space above was reached by an outer staircase, not from within the shop itself.
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			Six- to seven-floor tenement blocks also existed within the city.
			These buildings couldn&apos;t have more floors though, due to a legal cap on their height.
			When Augustus was in charge, they set the height maximum to twenty meters.
			However, when Trajan took over office, they shaved two meters off the limit, requiring the buildings to be even shorter.
			Life in these apartments wasn&apos;t ideal.
			They often had unstable foundations, were unsanitary, and had irregularities in amount due for rent.
			Between the poor foundations and poor maintenance, fallen tenement blocks were a common sight.
		</p>
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			Those not wealthy enough to have houses but wealthy enough to get better apartments lived on the bottom floor.
			This was the only floor with access to the public sewer.
			The upper-floor, poorer tenants had to use chamber pots, either carrying their waste to a well at the ground floor or throwing it out the window onto the streets below.
		</p>
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			Rich people living in the country had villas.
			These were much more spacious than city dwellings, and came in two main types.
			A villa rustica was basically a fancy farmhouse for estate owners that lived on their farm.
			A villa urbana was more of a secondary home, a place to live when on vacation and a place to stay the night when travelling in the area.
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		My goal for tomorrow will be to complete the grading, other discussion posts, and if there&apos;s time, learningjournal assignment before I go to work.
		After work, I&apos;ll need to go straight to be do I can get up early and head to Eugene.
		tomorrow will likely be a lost day, as far as time to complete coursework, so I want to get as much done now as I can.
		The only assignment I want left to complete on Wednesday is the essay.
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